In January 2011, we organized a mini conference about the Hungarian constitutional transformation at Humboldt University. We described the chain of events, from the landslide victory of the then-opposition party, Fidesz, to a series of drastic constitutional revisions. In our presentations, we called the transformation a constitutional crisis and we argued that the constitutional revisions did not meet the democratic constitutional standards. Continue reading
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Between Democratic Security and Democratic Legality – Constitutional Politics and Presidential Re-election in Colombia
Why do some courts act independently and others do not? This is the basic question that posed itself when Colombia’s Constitutional Court barred the sitting president from another term in office. Continue reading